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I’m trying to change a folder to read and write but everytime i check it again its read only
the folder is the oracle db home. When i untick read-only it it applies it but when i press ok check it again it’s read-only
anyone know a solution?
i’ve got windows xp
The read-only attribute on folders doesn’t actually mean the folder is read-only.
It doesn’t mean anything much at all to the filesystem but it is used by the Windows shell, and maybe other applications, as a tag. For example, the Windows shell will only look for a Desktop.ini file if a folder has the read-only attribute set. (Thus the attribute allows it to avoid the lookup if it is missing, since the lookup can be quite slow on network drives.)
Unless you have a reason to care about the attribute the solution is to ignore it and let whatever is setting it have its way. It’s probably setting it for a reason.
On the other hand, the read-only attribute on files is significant.